Gautama is the primary figure in Buddhism, also commonly refered to as Buddha ‘The Awakened One’. These passages contain the sacred words of the Buddha communicated to his disciples few centuries before the Common Era.
Passage
Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage! No sufferings befall the man who is not attached to name and form, and who calls nothing his own.
He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.
Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Beware of bodily anger, and control thy body! Leave the sins of the body, and with thy body practise virtue!
Beware of the anger of the tongue, and control thy tongue! Leave the sins of the tongue, and practise virtue with thy tongue!
Beware of the anger of the mind, and control thy mind! Leave the sins of the mind, and practise virtue with thy mind!
The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.
Max Muller. The Dhammapada: A Collection of Verses. Oxford, the Clarendon Press, 1898.
